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We took things literally and hovered our finger over 911 when we saw the colour chaos on her face.

But the 'emergency' bit in fact referred to the fact that hackers had leaked her single
Applaus
e - prompting the singer to revise the official release date from August 19 to August 12. And, when we looked a little closer at her complexion (with sunglasses if you will) we knew that this rainbow haze was of course her new beauty style statement stamp.

Most of us only ever find one colour we like in an eye shadow palette, but it seems that the genius that is Lady Gaga on the other hand likes and master them all with aplomb - to 39 million-strong Twitter applause.

Lady Ga Ga's cover selfie @ladygaga

For her new single's cover (out today - it's an emergency remember) the New York native has gone all Meadham Kirchhoff spring/summer 2012 on us, with maybe a hint of a Van Gogh painting.

Atop an alabaster white skin, smudges of blue, pink, yellow and red were worked into the angles and contours of her face for something we have to admit, is kind of crazy beautiful. This isn't a slap dash colour paint fight in make-up, this is carefully considered colour by Gaga.